Last season, I got frustrated by the show's formulaic quality -- not so much the procedural stuff as Lucifer's unchanging narcissism, his failure to learn and grow, and most annoyingly, his tendency to take somebody's passing comment literally and exaggeratedly reshape his entire behavior around it week after week. I got so sick of it that I stopped watching midway through season 3, though once it was cancelled, I decided I might as well catch up via On Demand.

But I do hope that no longer being on a commercial network means that the series won't be as bound by formula and episodic structure. Hopefully, now that the big secret is out for Chloe, the show can delve more into the supernatural and mythological side of the premise, bring in more elements from the comics, and allow character development more sophisticated than "What random comment will Lucifer rebuild his whole life around this week?"

"You don't use science to show that you're right, you use science to become right." -- xkcd

"The first man to raise a fist is the man who's run out of ideas." -- "H. G. Wells," Time After Time